SAP Capital Project Engineering Management (SAP CaPEM)

What Are Capital Projects?

A capital project is a long-term, capital-intensive investment to create, build upon, add to or improve a capital asset. Building new facilities, maintaining civil infrastructure, making improvements to public parks, constructing electric vehicle charging stations – these are just a few examples of capital projects that impact our daily lives. In an industrial context, capital projects often involve an investment in the procurement or construction of significant fixed assets, such as infrastructure like roads and bridges, factory warehouses or production sites. These projects tend to be multi-year and big-budget initiatives, and they are very common in asset-intensive sectors such as Energy & Utilities, Oil & Gas and Transportation & Infrastructure.

Given the complexity of capital project management, effective System Integration across the many digital systems involved has always been a massive pain point for capital-intensive businesses. No technology solution to date has been able to achieve satisfactory functional integration across essential processes, including the management of capital asset design, projects, documents and works administration. When trying to integrate capital project management and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, businesses often face the following challenges:

Lack of synchronization between various highly dispersed roles in the project
No synchronization between ERP databases/asset registers and the drawing register or Digital Twin
Sub-optimal integration between finance, project and asset management systems and related document controls, leading to complexity and unnecessary work
Impaired visibility and accountability of changes to asset data and related documents
Delayed recognition of assets by both physical and financial asset registers
Long turnaround times for design changes and other project changes with dependencies
Delayed updates of maintenance and operations systems during capital projects
Complex project forecasting and reporting processes

About SAP Capital Project Engineering Management (SAP CaPEM)

To address these capital project management challenges, Engineering Industries eXcellence has partnered with SAP and Siemens Digital Industries to deliver a ground-breaking solution that enhances Siemens' industry-leading Teamcenter Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) offering for capital works processes and deep functional integration with SAP S/4HANA. The resulting solution is called SAP Capital Project Engineering Management (SAP CaPEM).

SAP Capital Project Engineering Management adapts Siemens Teamcenter technology to apply the principles of PLM to the planning, design and construction of assets, integrating with SAP as the ERP system of choice. SAP CaPEM manages business processes and data exchanges between SAP and the project-specific activities around the design and build phases of a project. This includes managing the Common Data Environment to support the operation of Digital Twins and the sharing of design process documents. In short, SAP CaPEM makes easy the work required to effectively integrate data and business process flows.

Target Manufacturing Sectors

Aerospace, space and defense
Automotive and industrial machinery
Oil, gas and petroleum
Water, energy and utilities
Transportation and infrastructure

Features of SAP Capital Project Engineering Management

Applies the principles of PLM to the planning, design and construction of assets
Integrates with SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
Manages business processes and data exchanges between SAP and project-specific activities around design and build phases of a project
Enables consolidation of technical asset data in a collaborative digital environment
Manages the Common Data Environment to support operation of Digital Twins and sharing of design process documents
Integrates project and design information that is usually isolated
Manages various design interoperability frameworks that are common among vendors
Achieve functional integration across essential processes such as the management of capital asset design, projects, documents and works administration

Benefits of SAP Capital Project Engineering Management

Simplify the management of asset lifecycle data and business process flows
Enable a single, synchronized source of asset truth for frictionless cross-department collaboration
Optimize the performance of capital assets in project delivery and operations
Reduce complexity of capital project management
Decrease turnaround times for design and other project changes with dependencies
Simplify project forecasting and reporting processes
Drive significant cost-savings in capital asset projects

Engineering’s Expertise

Engineering Industries eXcellence, a company of the Engineering Group, is a long-standing, strategic and expert partner of both Siemens Digital Industries and SAP. Our global team of experts can provide consultation on how to remove capital project pain points with SAP CaPEM and improve the performance of your capital works program. Our specialists have real-world experience with SAP capital works management, project integration, GIS integration and asset master data management. We also have an established global practice of some of the world’s most technically specialized experts in PLM. Together, we deliver a combination of dual partnership reliability, business process knowledge, technical expertise and implementation capabilities that no other company but Engineering IndX can claim.